Squared Up Sundays - 11/13

Hey-o Friends! 

This weeks square may be a little bit bigger than so but it's the best none the less.

Since pumpkins are the staple of fall and this months coolest holiday, Thanksgiving, this table runner seemed like an almost perfect fit. How ever, it was a table runner and not a block, the only down side to our festive piece. All is well though, since the piece are  appliqué, you can use them for anything. Block, table runner, or otherwise! These appliqués are simple and sweet, plus you don't have to actually be good at cutting out to make them since pumpkins are always kind of awkward anyways. (Thank God!)

 So go on and appliqué pumpkin away! make all kinds of quirky decorations for your fun month of November and if you post them up, share them with me! Tag me in your photos on any social media platform all of the links are above in the right hand corner, and with that
I am ready to set sail (and get festive myself),
                                              Ms. Sinking Ship

Squared Up Sunday - 9/11

I almost didn't post today because for some people this day is very saddening and important and I was just very unsure about it, however I decided to go ahead and post todays and I picked this block very specifically 

The Butterfly Block

This block was picked today for the purpose that when a caterpillar goes into it's cocoon its body falls completely apart and because mush pretty much and then from that it is remade, and it all comes together to be born into a beautiful butterfly, and in bad times (like 9/11) our country does the same, when we are torn down we come together and help one another and are reborn better than before by the end of it. This block is incredibly detailed and very difficult but would be gorgeous to those that could make it. I wish you the best on this day, and I can't wait to see what you all make out of this block. 

I'm Ready to Set Sail (and I hope my point came across correctly),

                                                                                                      Ms. Sinking Ship

Squared Up Sunday - 9/4

Today's block is one I've always been incredibly fascinated with because it seems like it would be very simple but as a large quilt it would look incredibly intricate and beautiful

The Braided Block

This block seems like it would be fairly simple to construct and is very nice looking after but also looks very incredible when all put together on the quilt, it's connected by a large amount of thin strips all connected to make a braid, I eventually think it would be cute to make a quilted table runner out of this block but it's a project for when I get a house of my own for sure and not any time soon.

If you guys try out this blog I would love to see what you do with it and how you incorporate it into your quilts or other designs you put it in as always!

I'm Ready to Set Sail (and braid that bad boy!),

                                                       Ms. Sinking Ship 

P.S. Have an amazing Labor Day!

Bow-Badly: Trying the Bow Square

It's not as easy as it seemed.

 I took an attempt at the seemingly easy bow square I posted about this Sunday, I had all of my supplies ready, I was going to use a basic white cotton for the underneath and four different fabrics that I had gotten in a fat-quarter packet I had bought.





 Everything seemed like it would go pretty smoothly and so I set it all up and got right to cutting not giving it any thought really, before I knew it everything was cut out and ready to be sewn together! Super Easy!



I had the squares of the basic cotton, the centers of the bows cut, and the squares that will make though and I was ready to get sewing. I sewed all of the pattern squares to the cotton squares and was ready to pull the center together and make the cutest bows you'd ever seen.

 HOWEVER, when I tried to make a bow it just wasn't budging no matter what it wouldn't come together it would pull everything together crumpling up all of the fabric rather than just the first layer like it was supposed too. It was then that I realized my simple and very very silly mistake. In order for theses bows to have worked and pulled together correctly the base square and the pattern square couldn't be the same size. It's easy to realize and understand that when you actually sit and think about it but me being me, got very excited and did not think. I just acted, and so I had a bunch of awkward squares lying around that could technically be fixed but in a time of frustration were useless. I did not take a picture of this stage sadly because I was over the project and I was ready to make something good out of my ridiculous mistake rather than fix it.

So after some time of these pieces just sitting there, I finally figured out what to do with them and put them to use. 

I've been turning them into little envelope bags (or another word I can't seem to remember right now), they're the perfect sizes for pencils or as a cash keeper, so even though they weren't what they were supposed to be, all hope was not lost and at least they are still cute. 

I'm ready to set sail (and possibly lay off the 'easy' blocks for a while),

                                                                                                     Ms. Sinking Ship

Squared Up Sunday - 8/28

Do you know what todays is? 

National Bow Tie Day! I didn't know this until today but I'm very excited for two reasons

1. I love bows and bow ties they're adorable and show be on everything. 

2. I don't have one BUT TWO blocks to show you guys today because I got really excited and couldn't decide because these both are so cute and totally need to be shown. 

The first is very simple and sweet and would most likely just be used as a small decoration block on a quilt 

The Big Bow Block

It is one of the easiest blocks I have ever seen and I am very tempted to make an entire quilt of these blocks, even though I just said it would just be said it would just be used as decoration, tonight because it's so cute and I want it and I would take it every where with me. 

The second block is just as simple but is more on the sassier side and could be done in more manly colors for and more masculine look.

Fat Quarter Bow Tie Block 

This block is equally adorable but could be changed of in very simple ways to give it very different feels and I really like that about this quilt. It is very gender-neutral and could also be used in several different scenarios and I like that a lot as well.

Both blocks could be incredibly personalized as a lot of blocks can be now (but that doesn't matter), and would be very fun to try out, I definitely plan to try out the first block because I am overly excited about how cute it is and can not wait! I'll make sure to document the process and let you guys know how it goes,

I'm Ready To Set Sail (and bow it up),

                                                        Ms. Sinking Ship

Squared Up Sundays - 8/14

Did you guys know that today is National Coloring Book Day? 

Me either until I looked up holidays and events that happen on today in hopes something really cool would come up and I could use it with one of my blocks sadly though, nothing to exciting came up, other than the fun fact that China has declared war on an August 14th Multiple times, strange right? 

Anyways, so since nothing over the top interesting is happening today I decided it wouldn't hurt to do another school supply since I'm sure people are still just now starting school and getting settled in, This block was really neat and posses a bit more of a challenge than the last one

The Scissor Block

This one you may need to hold off on until you have a decent amount of time to cut and piece because  there e are a lot of pieces and some of them are oddly shaped. The block over all is really cool though and would look pretty neat next to a large variety of other types of blocks so it would fit well on a big quilt of some type. I don't really see myself making this block (at least any time soon) because I would get frustrated very quickly but I love looking at it because of all of the shapes and the over all look of the block. It is very intriguing and inspiring and maybe one day I'll have the patience to concur it but not any time soon. If any of you do though I would love to see it as always!

I'm Ready to Set Sail (and scout out more cool blocks to look at and never have the courage to try),

                                                                                                                                       Ms. Sinking Ship

   

Squared Up Sunday - 8/7

With school starting up again for every one very soon I saw the perfect opportunity to use this block

The Pencil Block

Since all will be busy getting back into the groove of school and their normal not summer schedules and everything this block seemed fitting all around. It's simple and sweet and a adorable necessity. It's easy enough that it won't take to long to cut out and piece together so you'll still be able to fit it in to your schedule while things are hectic but it's still cute and something that would be adorable and can be used in multiple functions! 

For the first time ever I won't be in school this year around this time but I'm still tempted to try to do something with it and give it to my sisters or others around me that are attending!

If any of you do try the block I would love to see how it turns out as always! 

Im ready to set sail (and skip the whole school thing),

                                                                           Ms. Sinking Ship

Squared Up Sunday - 7/24

 For the next week I am going to be at my Aunt's house visiting the great country side of Missouri,

and do you know what they have plenty of on the country side?

Animals. Horses, cows, chickens, donkeys, wild scary animals that live in the forestry really close to here. We saw a panther looking thing once and that was intense. The point I am getting at, is since I am going to be enjoying all of the animals around me this week, it would be fitting to use that for the other things that I am doing this week as well, so this week's Quilt Block is 

The Donkey Block

It's Interesting and definitely a force to be reckoned with, ironically almost the opposite to the Donkey in animal stero-type cases. The neat perspective of the Donkey makes the block intriguing and I really want to try it out once I get better at cutting pieces out, I should probably master the straight line before trying something like this. 

If any of you try it I would love to see it!

I'm ready to set sail (and breathe in the country side),

                                                                       Ms. Sinking Ship

DIY Color Block Clipboard

                    

I have loved color blocking and I have for a while now, I've been wanting to do a tutorial on it for almost a year now and I finally found something to do it with finally! 

This clip board has been through all kinds of disastrous remodeling (you should have seen the 80's stickers from my mom that I had to scrape off of the back) and it is once again time for a change, and this time one for better not worse. 

To do this I used:

• My clipboard (obliviously)
• Something to put my paint on
• Paint
• A paint brush (the bigger the better because it covers more space and makes more evenly distributed)
• I didn't use anything for this but if you need help making a straight line or are using another color on the other side, some type of tape to tape off the edge.

          

This is what the clipboard looks like before I did anything to it, it was covered in duct tape from that put duct tape absolutely everything you own then from a few years ago.

If you have anything on the clip board (or surface if you are just using this as a basic color blocking tutorial)  you are redoing make sure to remove it.

       

Then take your paint and put it on your plate/palette/or anything you decided to use to put paint on and then get plenty of the paint on your brush

                              

This is the part where if you need to tape down to keep your line straight you do so, then make a line half way across the tape half way on your clipboard. 

If you aren't using tape to make a straight line draw a line straight across where you want the line of color to be everything below that line will be filled in. Then you fill it in. You may have to do multiple layers of the paint to get the color you want, if you o say make sure to wait until the paint is completely dry before you paint another layer or you will just end up rubbing paint around and making the overall painting very spotty. 

                                                       

I ended up doing multiple coats but this is the first finished layer I did, I did the back as well where the checkered ductile was as well however it is not on here because I had to scrub Hannah Montana and other varies sticker collages off the back before I could paint it, but I follow the same process on the back if you plan to do so as well. I hopes this helps in any of your color blocking endeavors, again I;'m exciting to be back writing again!

Ready to Set Sail (and do stuff that is soon to be revealed!),

                                                                                 Ms. Sinking Ship

 

A Woman to Watch in 2016,

{ Possibly a new series of sorts, but it needs a better name }

You've probably seen these posts floating around Pinterest and Tumblr recently and have just sat in awe while you stared at them, well these dresses as well as tons and tons of other stunning dresses have all been created by 18-year-old Angela Clayton. She's brilliant, talented, and working non-stop to create all of her incredible master pieces that have been displayed all over the internet lately. Now, before you get discouraged (or seriously inspired) by these works of art and spend the rest of your day analyzing every detail of them to try and see how they work, know that not only does she have an awesome Tumblr and Wordpress blog that you can follow to keep up with her many projects, but you can also find her on youtube where she has tutorials and vlogs, along with incredible fabric and other crafting utensil hauls for you to follow and drool over as well (all of those links will be below the post).

I have had quite and obsession with dresses lately, and her works are absolutely inspiring to watch and read about being put together, I can't wait to work on some of my own ideas and projects for dresses this next year and her creations are just what I needed to keep me going even when I don't have the least bit of motivation, I am in love with everything she has done so far and can't wait to see what she'll come up with in 2016 and once you see her in work I'm sure you will too. She is someone to definitely keep an eye on this year,

    Ready to set sail (and sew), 

                                Mrs. Sinking Ship

I'm Back!

Hey guys, it's been a few months sorry to stop posting so abruptly for such a decent amount of time I got busy for one and two I couldn't find anything to write about. I was trying to pressure myself to write specifically about things and not what I truly felt. That sounds silly because I never really posted much anyways, but it was more of a self revalation thing rather than anything else, but I've come over that and I'm no longer doing ten thousand things constantly, (just maybe five thousand things instead.) and I'm excited to actually get this blog up and running! I'll start posting soon, I may have segments or they may just be random, I have had a lot of ideas and I want to try all of them so things may be kinda crash course for a while but it'll definitely keep things interesting! My post may range from little things like what's going on that day or a little bit of photography taken, something like that to big things like DIY tutorials or reviews on things who knows! I'm ready to get going and finally see what's in store. I hope all of you are still on board with me too.
                              Ready to (actually) set sail,
                                                         Ms. Sinking Ship

0309 Pinterest obsession: tumblr journals,

I've always had a joy for scrapbooking, collages, and journals. I've also always had a love for odd pictures, sayings. etc. These journals bring all of that together in the cutest manner and I can't stop obsessing over them, within the last week I filled my Pinterest with thousands of these pictures, now I've sat through and picked my favorites to show you. You can find all of these on my Pinterest or just pin them from here if you like them too. I'll be trying ideas I have from some of these soon and can't wait to see how they turn out.

Now I'm ready to set sail (and keep pinning!),

                                                                 Ms. Sinking Ship

Making Elastic Headbands,

Headbands can sometimes be ridiculously expensive, and so I decided to make my own. 

You will need : 

Elastic 

Ribbon

Hot Glue Gun

Glue

(1) First you need about a 4-inch piece of elastic then (2) you need a long strand of ribbon, for the easiest way of measurement wrap it around your head and come to right behind your ears for the best fit. (3) After you have these pieces you will take the glue gun and put a decent amount of glue on the edge of the elastic, (4) next you will place the ribbon in the spot where the glue is, let it set for a second and then press down, because of the materials that are in the two pieces the hot glue seems to create a seal when you look at it. You'll want to  repeat steps 3 and 4 on the other side before continuing. (5) Following that cut 2 2-3 inch pieces of ribbon, (6) these you are going to you use to cover the ends giving your headband a more clean and finished look. Add glue to the end section wear  your ribbon and elastic meet, set one end of the ribbon on the glue and press, after holding for a  second continue to put glue on the opposite side of where you just were and wrap the ribbon around the section. Then add a tiny bit more glue to the front and finish the wrap. (7) Finish this section by cutting off any extra that might be there and them repeat steps 5-7 on the other side. Your finished product should look like step 8 above. If the headband doesn't turn out how you planned or you don't want to make your own I always have mine on sale 3 headbands for $6 on my Etsy shop. Link below.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/221859975/

If they do turn out and you post them on Instagram or Twitter use the hashtag 

#mssinkingship

and I can see all of the different ways you made yours work.

                  Well, I'm ready to set sail (and finish up other post for the week),

                                                                                  Ms. Sinking Ship

What I Wore Today 1.1.15,

So This is going to be a little segment for the artistic side or for the fashionable side, or both maybe.  Usually there will be an artsy type picture, wether a drawing, a painting, etc. of the outfit I wore that day and it was supposed to start today but do to an overly large turn of events I could not get the picture done. So I hope you enjoy this little notice and the new look of the page instead because it took a ridiculous four days.
                        Ready to set sail, (and start this segment)
                                                                  Ms. Sinking Ship
               

Socks On Sunday,

Yesterday night I spent a few hours playing around with my yarn and what came out of it was great a cute pair of purple fuzzy crocheted socks. I've always found the best things happen when you're not stressing over creating anything, and it's true. I have been stressed for weeks about getting more products out on the market for the KNITche and when I finally stopped stressing out about it and just starting working, things worked out. I hope to get out a step by step Picture crochet pattern soon (because I'm really bad at explaining them, or just reading them for that matter) for you all to use and for those that don't crochet and want a pair they are already up for sale on the Facebook page. Facebook.com/theknithchebycherish

Ready to set sail (and keep my feet warm),

                                                   Ms. Sinking Ship

Finding Inspiration Every Where You Go,

  This weekend I took a trip to Tulsa and while I  was in the city I went on a few mansion tours and to the aquarium, photographing anything I thought might provide even the slightest of inspiration, and some of it did. The usage of the space provided even in mansions was incredible, and the color palettes I found in the aquariums were very influential in a few ideas I have for items I hope to be posting soon.
                             Inspiration is every where, you just have to look for it.
                                               Ready to set sail (and put this inspiration to work),
                                                                                  Ms. Sinking Ship

New Products from the KNITche,

New products were recently released on to the KNITches page ( link below ) Three chalk board jars were recently added (and one none decorated on was released but not depicted). While Shooting pictures of these jars I had a little fun and used them to my entertain meant, I thought you guys would find it slightly entertaining as well.

On top of our recent release I am working on some very large chalk jars as well and a few jewlery pieces that will  be up soon. I will be posting pictures once they are done and you can find all of these things with much more at Facebook.com/theknitchebycherish

Ready to set sail and get back to work,

     Ms. Sinking Ship

The best way to find things,

As a creative person, I often go looking for things : inspirations, marketing tips, learning how to do things and so on. People will always tell you to go to youtube that's the one place you'll always find things, I disagree. Youtube is great for many things but, finding exactly what you need in a timely manner not always so much. I've found that the best place to find things for a creative mind is Pinterest, it identifies key words, almost always has multiple options for what you are looking and 95 percent of it is more reliable that gritty video you've spent 10 minutes trying to watch because you couldn't find the better version (because it has give you the best youtube version there). Youtube is definitely a great source and a last resource go to for everything but always try Pinterest first, it saves time and frustration, which if you are like me could use a lot less of.
                     Ready to set sail (and help you save those 10 minutes),
                                                                      Ms. Sinking Ship

Inspiration in an artillery base, A trip to the museum

Today, I went on to the base that is connected to my town and took a quick trip to the artillery museum; what I found was an extraordinary amount of inspiration I was not expecting. A beautifully aged car, a piece of the Berlin wall and an old war pillow that just caught my eye a little to well. I found it all to be educating on a history level but also, inspiring in a new light I would love to create and maybe embroider a pillow that looks similar to above and the Berlin wall is such an artisic kiss off to the government that I can't handle the excitement and momentum to work it brings to me. As for the car, I have a love for odd antiques and old cars is definetly one of them. I own a not so antique '87 ford and it is a very large love and inspiration of mine, so seeing a beauty like the pontiac above makes me want to scream from the roof top (especially,  since it's a favorite color of mine.) All of these things gave me a few ideas that I can't wait to start.
                  Ready to set sail (and work),
                              Ms. Sinking Ship!
   

Thrifty finds 8.21

This week on my way to buy supplies for a job, the mother and I(my little sister as well)  saw a yard sale and had to stop to look. I found quite the haul, and plenty of things I can not wait to use in products and DIY for you guys.

These jars are something I'm very excited for i plane on covering the pictures with chap paint and covering the lid with flowers and things to create a very cute new modern and sweet jar to hold a variety of things. I'll definitely be posting them up soon as a finished product along with the many other things these things i found will create. the glass jar was full of gorgeous vintage buttons and the pink box vintage handmade hair bows even that i need to find something to do with.  

    well, I'm ready to set sail - Ms. Sinking Ship.